sophister

[ sof-uh-ster ]

noun

1. a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
2. Chiefly British. (especially formerly) a second or third year student at a university.
3. Obsolete. an ancient Greek sophist.

sophister

/ ˈsɒfɪstə /

noun

1. (esp formerly) a second-year undergraduate at certain British universities
2. rare.
   another word for sophist

Word History and Origins

Origin of sophister¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French sophistre < Latin sophista. See sophist

Example Sentences

Do not let any sophister teach thee that thy God is far aloft from thee as the stars are.

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I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one of them was a crafty old sophister, and the other a mere novice.

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I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one was a crafty old sophister, and the other a true novice.

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He entered Trinity College as a fellow-commoner, completed his junior sophister terms, and then migrated ad eundem to Oxford.

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He ridicules his opponent's arguments as worthy of "a sophister in the parvyse schools."

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